Sigapatella

Sigapatella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails, Chinese hat snails, and cup-and-saucer snails.[2]

Sigapatella
Dorsal view of a shell of Sigapatella novaezelandiae
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Sigapatella

Lesson, 1831[1]
Type species
Sigapatella novaezelandiae Lesson, R.P., 1830
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Clypeola Gray, 1868
  • Sigapatella (Sigapatella) Lesson, 1831 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Sigapatella (Spirogalerus) Finlay & Marwick, 1937 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Trochella Gray 1867
  • Zegalerus Finlay, 1926

Taxonomy

This group of species was originally classified under Calyptraea (Sigapatella) by Lesson in 1830. In 1990 the subgenus was elevated to the rank of genus as Sigapatella by Beu et al. [3] and confirmed in 2000 by Camacho et al. (2000) [4]

Description

The oval shell has a lateral apex. The interior plate has a submarginal axis. The free margin is concave.[5]

Species

Species within the genus Sigapatella include:


  • Sigapatella (Spirogalerus) lamellaria (Finlay & Marwick, 1937) (synonym: Spirogalerus lamellaria Finlay & Marwick 1937) [15]
Species brought into synonymy
  • Sigapatella maculata Suter, 1913 : synonym of Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1830)

References

  1. Lesson R. P. (1831). Voy. "Coquille," Zool. 2(1): 389.
  2. WoRMS (2010). Sigapatella Lesson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391489 on 2011-10-31
  3. A. G. Beu, P.A. Maxwell, and R.C. Brazier. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58
  4. H. H. Camacho, J. O. Chiesa, S. G. Parma and C. J. Rio. 2000. Invertebrado marinos eocenos de los cerros Palique y Castillo, subdoeste de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Ameghiniana 37(1):59-72
  5. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 103; 1886
  6. H. H. Camacho, J. O. Chiesa, S. G. Parma and C. J. Rio. 2000. Invertebrado marinos eocenos de los cerros Palique y Castillo, subdoeste de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Ameghiniana 37(1):59-72
  7. Seashells of New South Wales : Sigapatella calyptraeiformis
  8. Seashells of new South Wales : Sigapatella hedleyi
  9. Molluscs of Tasmania : Sigapatella hedleyi
  10. J. Marwick. 1929. Tertiary molluscan fauna of Chatton, Southland. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 59:903-937
  11. Marshall, B.A. 2003: A review of the Recent and late Cenozoic Calyptraeidae of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger 46: 117-144.
  12. Marshall B.A. 2003. A review of the Recent and Late Cenozoic Calyptraeidae of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger 46(2): 117-144
  13. A.W.B. Powell, Tertiary Molluscan Faunulesfrom the Waitemata Beds
  14. J. Marwick, Molluscan Fauna of the Waiarekan Stage of the Oamaru Series
  15. Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990)
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Paleopbiology Database : Sigapatella
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